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Your roof void could be harbouring them. Did you have birds nesting in
your
eaves or on the roof itself?

Ugh, don't tell me I'm going to have to venture in to the loft? It's
dark up there!

I have to say, I don't look up there much. I haven't noticed any
accumulated droppings on the floor (that's a sign of a nest, right?)

Last year, a pidgeon kept fluttering past the bedroom windows, I
wondered if it was nesting. Is that too long ago to be significant?


Pigeons last year would be a bit to long ago I'd have thought, so something
more recent than that really. Have the pigeons returns? Maybe not to the
same spot in the roof space though. It may even be bats or other types of
bird nesting that could be somewhere in the loft space or another void that
is open to them.

Beetles are the types of things you also find around rotting wood, depending
on their type of course, so it might be a sign of a small yet un-noticed
leak or dry mould somewhere.

Not knowing what type of beetle they are for sure, so the diagnosis is only
coming from things that it could be that attract beetles.